“My former employer has sold the Gears of War IP/franchise to Microsoft and my friend Rod Fergusson is going to be working on it. To be honest, I don’t think the franchise could be in better hands. Heck, Rod’s Twitter handle, to this day, is “Gears Viking.” Gears is just as much Rod’s baby as it was mine. He’ll take good care of her,” he said.

Adding, “I’m not going to move to Vancouver and work on it. I’m not going to consult on it. My headspace is in the future now, not the past.”

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Bleszinski also joked about the old question of whether Gears will ever come to the PlayStation platform, saying, “I suppose this puts the nail in the coffin of the question “Will Gears ever come to Playstation?”

This follows the news that Microsoft has acquired the rights to the Gears of War franchise from Epic Games this morning and subsequently appointing Rod Fergusson as a lead on the upcoming game, which will be developed by Black Tusk Studios.